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package org.apache.flink.streaming.api.functions.source;
import org.apache.flink.annotation.Public;
/**
* A stream data source that is executed in parallel. Upon execution, the runtime will
* execute as many parallel instances of this function function as configured parallelism
* of the source.
*
* <p>This interface acts only as a marker to tell the system that this source may
* be executed in parallel. When different parallel instances are required to perform
* different tasks, use the {@link RichParallelSourceFunction} to get access to the runtime
* context, which reveals information like the number of parallel tasks, and which parallel
* task the current instance is.
*
* @param <OUT> The type of the records produced by this source.
*/
@Public
public interface ParallelSourceFunction<OUT> extends SourceFunction<OUT> {
}